spanish reale

I have had my detector since 2016 and STILL learning about it! I learned about being able to adjust sensitivity-3 to +3 Went back to one of my favorite sites and pulled out this 1779 Spanish reale! I am over the moon and now have all my previous areas to rehunt!

WOW, what an exciting hunt, this fine Spanish 1/2 Reale came out, such fine details on the reverse, 1802 is clear on obverse, mint mark of Mexico City, Mexico. Just think, this was minted in Mexico City, came by ship to a port in America and then was distributed by horse and mule wagons to the...

So it turns out this 1/2 Spanish Silver Reale, was turned into a cuff button. I found this coin/button on New Years Day 2016 in Rolesville, NC, and posted on here, but after viewing under a USB microscope you can clearly see a round solder mark, where a shank would have been attached. This 1/2...

Hey guys I'm new here but i think this is the only community that can help. I have 500 Spanish Reale recovered in the 1980's. I have narrowed it down that the shipwreck had to be from 1689 to 1860. The person who discovered the coins died later that year, so we cant get any information from him...

I have always wondered how do people find such old coins when detecting...well they dig like I did! My husband an I had just arrived at a site to detect when the very first beep was a 36 on my Minelab xterra 505. I dug about 6 inches and this tiny coin popped out of the clump of dirt. I yelled...